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Pre-Election Coverage

On the Record has spoken with all nine Democratic gubernatorial candidates about why they’re running, how they would address certain issues and why voters should pick them to be the Democrats’ standard bearer against incumbent Republican Gov. Larry Hogan. You can hear the Democratic candidates discuss these topics:

Rushern Baker (D) - Baker is one of three candidates in the race who is not a political outsider, and now, the only one currently serving as a county executive. Baker entered politics in 1994, serving in the Maryland House of Delegates until 2003. He lost his first two elections for Prince George's county executive, but in 2010, he beat incumbent Jack Johnson. Soon after that election, federal prosecutors arrested Johnson on corruption charges. Mr. Baker has been widely credited with improving the county’s image and ending its "pay to play" legacy.

His running mate is Elizabeth Embry, a lawyer in the MD Attorney General’s office and a former candidate for Mayor of Baltimore.

Larry Hogan (R) - Hogan is one of only two Republicans elected to our state’s highest office in the last 50 years, and in a poll released in January by Gonzales Media and Research, 71% of MD voters said they approve of the job the Governor is doing. While there is no shortage of Democrats vying for the chance to face the Governor in the general election in November, Mr. Hogan lead all of them in head-to-head match-ups at early stages in the campaign.

The Governor points to education funding and accountability, re-districting, and the environment as some of his top priorities. His running mate is current Lieutenant Governor Boyd Rutherford.

Ralph Jaffe (D) - Jaffe is a retired teacher who has run several times for Governor and U.S. Senate. He does not accept campaign contributions. Part of his mission statement is to "use the political campaigns as a teaching device to show my students where the corruption is in government." He has not held elected office before. His running mate is Freda Jaffe.

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Ben Jealous

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Ben Jealous (D) - Jealous is perhaps best known as the former president and CEO of the NAACP. When he was appointed to that position in 2008, he was, at 35 years old, the youngest person ever to lead the NAACP. He was there for more than 5 years. When he left the NAACP in 2013, he joined Kapor Capital as a partner and investor. It’s a progressive investment firm based in Oakland, CA. He manages the firm’s Baltimore office. He is also a visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is a former community organizer and, early in his career, he was a journalist.

His running mate is Susan (Susie) Turnbull, a former chair of the Maryland Democratic Party.

James Hugh Jones (D) -Jones is a pastor who says one of the biggest issues is government accountability to citizens. He has not held elected office before. His running mate is Charles S. Waters. Waters is also a pastor.

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Sen. Richard S. Madaleno, Jr.

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Rich Madaleno (D) - Madaleno has represented Montgomery County in the MD Legislature for more than 15 years -- first in the House of Delegates and, since 2007, in the State Senate. Since 2015, he has been Vice-Chair of the powerful Senate Budget and Taxation Committee. He is the first openly gay person elected to the MD House of Delegates and the State Senate. If elected, he would be the first openly gay governor of any state in America. His running mate is Luwanda W. Jenkins, a Baltimore native and business executive who served in the administrations of Maryland’s last three Democratic governors -- O’Malley, Glendening & Schaefer.

Alec Ross (D) - Ross is an innovation expert, and the author of the New York Times best-selling book, "The Industries of the Future," about innovation and the changes that economies and societies can expect over the next decade. Ross served in the State Department as Senior Advisor on Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He also worked in the Obama campaign and transition team in 2008. He’s a former Distinguished Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University.

His running mate is Julie Verratti, Co-Founder of Denizens Brewing Co. in Silver Spring and former senior policy advisor at the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Jim Shea (D) - Before running for Governor, Shea was partner and chairman of Venable, a law firm with 8 U.S. offices. He served on the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland for 10 years.

He has chosen Baltimore City Councilman Brandon Scott as his Lt. Governor running mate.

Krish Vignarajah (D) -Vignarajah served as Policy Director to First Lady Michelle Obama. She was also a senior advisor at the State Department for Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. Before working in the Obama administration, she was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. She is a Yale and Oxford educated lawyer who practiced law in Washington, DC. She clerked for Chief Judge Michael Boudin on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and she taught as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.

Her running mate is Sharon Blake, the former head of the Baltimore Teacher’s Union.

Kevin Kamenetz (D) -Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kevin Kamenetz' name will appear on the ballot. He died of cardiac arrest in early May. His running mate Valerie Ervin decided to run in his stead, but she dropped out of the race on June 12. Ervin attempted to get her name on the ballot but the Maryland Board of Elections said it was too late to reprint or edit the ballot.

A record 222,000 voters cast ballots during the early voting period that ended Thursday. About six percent of eligible, active voters cast ballots early, a slight increase over early voting during the last gubernatorial primary in 2014, but a slight decrease from the presidential primary in 2016.

About 49,000 Marylanders — one in every five who voted early — cast their ballots on Thursday. About 5 percent of Republican voters and about 8 percent of Democrats cast ballots.

Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger is Tom's guest in Studio A, for the hour today. He has represented Maryland’s 2nd congressional district since 2003. That district includes parts of five jurisdictions: Baltimore City and Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Harford and Howard Counties.

Rep. Ruppersberger serves on the House Appropriations Committee as well as the Subcommittee on Defense and the Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations & Related Programs. He is a former ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. A number of institutions and organizations in his district are involved in cyber security issues.

Like all but one of the eight members of the Congressional delegation from Maryland, he is standing for re-election this year. He is being opposed in the primary by a political newcomer, Jake Pretot.

The Congressman was successful in his efforts to reinstate EPA funding for the Bay Journal, but Congressional Democrats have been frustrated by inaction on DACA. Representative Sarbanes has also been working on addressing the crisis of opioid addiction, and he serves as the Chair of the Democracy Reform Task Force. The Baltimore native currently lives in Towson.

The nine Democrats running for governor faced off Wednesday in their fourth debate, which was taped and will air on WMAR-2 News on June 13 at 8 p.m. WYPR’s Rachel Baye discusses the debate with Nathan Sterner.

Four Democratic candidates for governor and three for lieutenant governor discussed education policy at a forum Tuesday night hosted by the Real News Network in Baltimore.

The forum’s focus was the state panel studying how to revise Maryland’s education funding formulas and modernize the state’s approach to education more broadly. The group is known as the Kirwan Commission because it’s led by University System of Maryland Chancellor Emeritus Brit Kirwan. It plans to publish its recommendations at the end of the year, and they are expected to come with a large price tag.

During the last General Assembly session, lawmakers created a temporary fix to stabilize Maryland’s Obamacare exchange after Congress repealed the individual mandate to buy health insurance. Now, the Democratic gubernatorial candidates are backing what they say would be a permanent fix.

Ashley Aylward is a senior at Goucher College in Towson, majoring in political science. She wants to run for office one day. When she opened a Democratic gubernatorial forum at the Ungar Athenaeum at Goucher, Aylward wanted the seven candidates who particiapated to know something about young voters.

"Contrary to popular opinion, we do care about issues far greater than the legalization of marijuana,” Aylward said.